Moreover, these insects are not accessible to other birds, and could pursue their career of destruction unmolested were it not that the Woodpeckers, with beaks and tongues especially fitted for such work, dig out and devour them.
BIRDS is indeed the best means of acquiring speedy as well as accurate knowledge of Ornithology desired by those who do not expect to pursue the study in all its scientific ramifications.
So Frank was sent to college, with the understanding that, after graduating, he was to pursue his favorite study of medicine.
But whether it is expedient or judicious to pursue such a course must depend on the peculiar circumstances which each individual case presents.
It is not requisite, for the honor of Joanna, nor is there, in this place, room to pursue her brief career of action.
We pursue the same course; and what we know about this world we use as the standard, and by that standard we have found that the inspired men knew nothing about Nature as it is.
Christians cross the Atlantic, knowing that the ship willpursue its way on the Sabbath.
We need not pursue word for word, step by step, the relation, with the issue of which my readers are fully acquainted.
In the meantime what had he to do, but to pursue his former career, and hush the voice of conscience in the excitement of the crowd.
They did not know why they had not thought to pursue and punish the offender--they could not know that it was because they had as yet not reached a mental plane which would permit them to work as individuals.
Not until then did they gain courage to pursue him, and when they had come in force, with brandished spears and loud war cries, the quarry was gone.
It was Tarzan who had conceived and carried out the plan to pursue Teeka's abductor and rescue the stolen one.
These few directions are quite sufficient for the art, and it is quite unnecessary for me to pursue the subject further.
Doubtful he stood Or to pursue at once the Thunderer's son Sarpedon, or to take more Lycian lives.
By those who knew Mr. Johnson's views intimately, the omission was understood to imply that Mr. Lincoln had intended to pursue a more liberal and more generous policy with the rebels than his successor deemed expedient or prudent.
In his message of December, 1875, he again invited the attention of Congress to "the evil arising from the importation of Chinese women, but few of whom are brought to our shores to pursue honorable or useful occupations.
I was about to propose it," she replied, "or rather to pursuethe politics.
You will certainly come to grief, if you pursue a vague ideal of lumping all results together, and regarding a profit somewhere as a sufficient excuse or a positive reason for making a loss elsewhere.
The fore-feet are inclined sideways, so as to answer the use of hands, to scoop out the earth to form its habitation or pursue its prey, and to fling all the loose soil behind the animal.
Soon after sunset they gradually quit their hold, and pursue their nocturnal flight in quest of food.
Indeed, my young mind used to play upon the delicate fancy that such a creature could never do anything so common as eat or drink or pursue any of the daily functions of us ordinary mortals.
He was seized with an incessant diarrhœa; for the water was bad; and for this reason he could not pursueall the Scythians.
Moreover, the men who had been beleaguered in the city were expected to pursue the Macedonians closely if they made a retreat.
Of the Scythians, 150 horsemen were slain; but the rest of them easily escaped into the desert, for it was impossible for the Macedonians to pursue them any further.
He resolved to pursue the other Porus, the bad one, with the lightest troops in his army, because he was informed that he had left the land which he ruled and had fled.
Of the Persian cavalry only about 1,000 were killed; for Alexander did not pursue them far, but turned aside to attack the Greek mercenaries, the main body of whom was still remaining where it was posted at first.
As they were nimble and well-acquainted with the locality, they effected their retreat without difficulty; whereas the Macedonians, on account of the heaviness of their arms and their ignorance of the roads, durst not pursue them vigorously.
If left at liberty in a state of tameness, it will pursue poultry, and destroy every living thing that it has strength to conquer.
You may turn and pursue your enterprise; for the circumstances under which you will appear as my escort are sufficient to shield you from all suspicion for the present.
One of the circumstances there stated is, that they continued to pursue the route by which the Kalmucks had fled, never for an instant finding any difficulty in tracing it by the skeletons and other memorials of their calamities.
Elizabeth watched himpursue the cow, and disappear round a corner.
As for me, I have done nothing but pursue that object ever since--in my own way.
Wherefore, let us together pursue this girl of Boston on the instant.
The servants could not evade the ever watchful but cold attention that seemed to pursue them.
By another law enacted by the same monarch, every proprietor of land had the privilege to hunt game within his own fields and woods; but might not pursue them into the royal forests.
These exercises were not much followed by the citizens of London at the close of the sixteenth century, not for want of taste for the amusement, says Stow, but for leisure to pursue it.
This is a rustic pastime, and commonly practised at Christmas-time and at Midsummer; those who pursue it find plenty of exercise; but nothing can excuse the wantonly tormenting so harmless an animal.
During his absence from Rome Caesar went to Rhodes, where his former preceptor resided, and he continued to pursue there for some time his former studies.
Hence extortion in the provinces, and the most profuse and lavish expenditure in the city, became the policy which every great man must pursue to rise to power.
In the mean time, Sylla had ceased to pursue him, and ultimately granted him a pardon, but whether before or after this time is not now to be ascertained.
He therefore who would be happy must pursue temperance and avoid intemperance, and if possible escape the necessity of punishment, but if he have done wrong he must endure punishment.
The Divinely-appointed Plan must and will likewisepursue undeflected its predestined course.
Well, if we cannot obtain direct satisfaction, let us pursue the investigation of our point a little more circuitously.
Also, the reported order for Air Force pilots to pursue the disks would have to be a fake.
Apparently alarmed, the Air Force had ordered fighters to pursue the fast-flying saucers.
He is, in short, a sedentary idler, who will not take the trouble to read the great book of nature, and would rather fire at a wooden eagle on a pole, than pursue the kingly bird amidst the wild scenery of the Apennines.
The works of Titian realise everything which is valuable and essential in the art of painting, and the student who does not pursue the track of this great master will never attain high rank as a painter.
